Iraq in Wartime - Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance

Informationen zum Autor Dina Rizk Khoury is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University. Since 2005, she has been writing on the contemporary history of Iraq, particularly on violence, sectarian politics, and war and memory. She is the author of State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Klappentext Traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last 23 years of Ba'thist rule. Zusammenfassung Dina Rizk Khoury traces the political! social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last 23 years of Ba'thist rule. Drawing on Ba'thist state and party documents as well as oral interviews with soldiers and intellectuals! this book tells a multilayered story of a society where war had become the norm. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. A brief history of Iraq's wars under the Ba'th; 3. The internal front: making the war routine; 4. Battle fronts: war and insurgency; 5. Things fall apart: the First Gulf War and its aftermath; 6. War's citizens, war's families; 7. Memory for the future: soldiering and the war experience; 8. Commemorating the dead; 9. Postscript.

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• Authors: Dina Khoury, Dina Rizk Khoury, Dina Rizk (George Washington University Khoury
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.04.2013
• EAN: 9780521711531
• ISBN: 978-0-521-71153-1
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology